War Quotes

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

The purpose of all war is peace.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

There never was a war that was not inward.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.